Motivational Quotes

Prayer

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Prayer

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

43.

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

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